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Mar 18, 2016
I gave a high rating for this manga because it has this classic manga feeling about it. No blatant promiscuity, has dramatic background stories, well portrayed characters, good conversation, perfect comic timing and drawing, and the message is strong. I don't usually go for sensei-student romance but this one is different just because I think Ojiro Kazuma is a very patient and warm hearted guy who respects woman so much. Too bad there are no background story of why Kazuma was so willing to help Kaji Fumino and her brother, Teppei, besides the fact that he is her homeroom teacher.
Fumino has a tragic past with
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both her parents died when she was 15, disowned by her grandfather, and was placed into several different foster homes. She is also a strong girl who easily picks fight with school bullies and even local gangsters.
Whereas Kazuma, is a former delinquent who disowned his powerful family. After his mother passed away, he was raised mainly by handlers and rarely saw his father and then one day, he found out that his father is going to remarry and already had another son with his new wife. He felt left out and he grew up as a delinquent at school. He then turned his life around at the end, though.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Mar 18, 2016
One of the hidden gems of Shoujo manga which I think it's more borderline Shounen since the main character is a guy and yet another guy and a girl whose traits similar to a guy.
This manga tells a story about a masculine, nation's top kendo athlete, Masamune Asuka, who has it all: tall, rich, cool, not a playboy, dignified BUT he actually favours feminine hobbies: collect and make dolls, embroidery, cooking, decorations, house cleaning. When Asuka was young, his father left the family to become a woman. His mother felt disappointed and betrayed by his actions and swore never to let Asuka turned into his
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father - feminine and all. Lucky for him, his mother is a succesful business woman who travels a lot and whenever she is not home, he lets out all his doll and cross stitch collections.
The other character is Tachibana Juuta, school playboy who is secretly a shoujo mangaka under a pseudonym. He loves women around him and dates many of them because he is looking for inspiration for his manga. He wants to find this perfect girl who is feminine but alas he cannot find her, until one day he discovered Asuka's secret. Juuta then realized that there are no person more feminine than Asuka, the feared and respected Kendo captain. Juuta is also struggling to keep his identity hidden so that he can live a normal life and provide for his big family.
The girl of the story is Miyakozuka Ryo, daughter of a tough policeman, who was raised only by her father after her mother passed away. Her father raised her the only way he knows, tough and street fighting-style with a deep sense of justice (well, he is a policeman, anyway). One of the funniest part of this manga is when a teacher visited Ryou's house and went into her room and found out that the room looks more like a dojo instead of a girly room.
The romance is a triangle in this manga: from Asuka to Ryou and from Juuta to Asuka, although the last one is not evident but the way Juuta realized that no other person would made such lovely bento, stitch his loose buttons, make teddy bears, than Asuka. He is the one for him but in a personality kind of way. Juuta also admired Ryou and very supportive of the budding romance between the two.
The message is clear on this manga: love and embrace who you really are inside. Don't be afraid to be yourself because other people is also struggling to be who they are, as well.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Nov 6, 2015
This is one of the manga that when I read, I know it is just a fiction. I keep reminding myself that, too. Otherwise, it will be very annoying and absurd. How come you lick a girl's neck without her consent just because she agreed to marry, when she was a toddler? Totally unacceptable! So, put aside common sense when reading it. Of course, it is hard, but chapter after chapter, we get to know this story about love and how preserve it. In this case, how to preserve your loved one. The youkai world is nasty and harsh, blood spill everywhere on a whim,
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yet this one guy/thing, Kyou Usui, turned out somewhat right. He is loving and protective to the ones he care about and adamant on protecting what he needs and he wants. Misao, is what he needs and wants and thus he fiercely protects her. He could have just eat her and be eternal yet that is not what he had in mind.
Surely, Misao deserves to live her own life but she keeps thinking about this boy who she vaguely remembers as her first love. Was it Kyou or Shou, nobody will ever know, but she surely decided that it is Kyou. She was already hopelessly into this idea of "Kyou" her first love, so when he returned and turned out to be a handsome male adult with extraordinary power and one goal in mind: to marry her, that is just like a hattrick moment for her. He waited for her to be voluntarily 'married' to after many attacks and hindrance.
His actions before they finally together, however, is like he already has her, yet it is not the case. But since she was attacked by demons right from the beginning of the series, she gradually believes that she needs a protection from a very powerful being. He believed it also and that is why he strive so hard to be the leader of his clan so his beloved Misao cannot be vanished just like that, after being captured by other demons. He knows that it is unavoidable and he knows that his brother Shou, the original clan leader, was so abusive and cold. Kyou cannot let Misao into Shou's hands after seeing that little Misao got slapped by Shou just because he gave her the mud balls (although we do learn that it is NOT the mud that made Shou angry). In order to protect Misao, he sets his mind to beat his older brother and be the clan leader. So, first lesson is you must be strong or have power in order to protect your loved ones.
Second lesson is that, in love, there must be an equally great give and take. It is symbolize by the senka power that lies inside Misao's body. That power can only be used by youkai or demons and other supernatural beings, and useless to humans. I am referring all this from the story of the last chapter. The senka power is so great on youkais that they can do unbelievable things, including bring their loved ones to life after death.
At the end, it is a very nice love story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 6, 2015
I know this manga is not everyone's cup of tea or slice of cake. The main female character, Tsubaki Hibino, is insecure and quiet girl who fall in love with delinquent Kyouta Tsubaki, who is also her classmate. Before you go far, let me spoil it for you: it's a happy ending.
Mind you, this manga mostly set during their high school period. This fact is what I think that readers might forget. Both characters were never in love before, they never knew what is it like to be in love.
Tsubaki does her sister, Sakura, hair every day so Sakura can look the cutest, yet
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Tsubaki never did her own hair because she thinks "what for anyway?" Her mother also conditioned that Tsubaki is the clever daughter and Sakura is the pretty one. Every now and then, in real life, we have this kind of parent living around us. Or that it is deep within each of sisters (and brothers) hearts, we all know that kind of feeling of classifying ourselves into groups. Whether it is sensible or not, that is a question for much later in life.
Kyouta on the other hand is a popular, handsome, and free living delinquents from a broken home. His father is abusive and his mother left the family when he was very young. He supports himself by working part time job in a karaoke bar.
So, when opportunity appears, Tsubaki and Kyouta were in a relationship, it is make sense that insecurities shown. Especially from Tsubaki. She was never with a man before and all her life is for study study study. Her insecurities made me hate and love and hate and love her alternately during the entire course of reading this manga series. I feel her insecurities and I understand.
What makes it wonderful is that Kyouta began to understand these bouts of insecurities from Tsubaki. He slowly adapts and accepts it. Towards the end, during his college life, he avoids fan girls asking him to lunch together. He also thrown away that jacket that had been worn by his female co-ed who made Tsubaki jealous. He even chased her all through previously rain soaked Kyoto in just a t-shirt because of that (that must be cold, no?) Although the end (bonus chapter) is a very quick time jump to 6 years after the first ring, which means 3 years after first meeting, so, 9 years after the events in first chapter. We see that for a solid 6 years, most insecurities are thrown aside. Only for a quick moment after Kyouta told that he received a job offer in The US that Tsubaki had another insecurity 'attack'.
This manga made me wonder what happened if I ever be in love with someone for so long during my teenage or high school life. I think most women grow up with lots of insecurity bound them around the ankles. We learn how to be free from experiences of life itself. The more we know about ourself, it is one step more towards freedom. So, when Tsubaki started a relationship with the most handsome student in the school, who is also a reputable player, no wonder her insecurities grow and having trust issues with Kyouta, like, all the time. However, Kyouta is not just playing a receiver, he also gives understanding and patience and also learns. This is what makes this mange an 8 for me. This is a beautiful story, if I had a boyfriend like Kyouta, I will be swarm in jealousy as well and if the boyfriend just does not care, then it will be the end of it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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